Amazon S3 vs NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP comparison

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and NetApp are both solutions in the Public Cloud Storage Services category. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.7, while NetApp is ranked #5 with an average rating of 8.9. Amazon Web Services (AWS) holds a 11.5% mindshare in PCSS, compared to NetApp’s 7.2% mindshare. Additionally, 98% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 95% of NetApp users who would recommend it.

Amazon S3

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95% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 1, 2024

Amazon S3 and NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP compete in the cloud storage solutions category. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP has the upper hand due to its advanced data management capabilities, while Amazon S3 excels in cost-effectiveness and ease of use. User reviews indicate higher overall satisfaction with NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP.

Features: Amazon S3 users value its scalability, integration options, and cost-effectiveness. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is appreciated for features like snapshots, cloning, and tiering. Advanced data management capabilities make NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP stand out compared to Amazon S3's basic storage functionalities.

Room for Improvement: Amazon S3 users highlight the need for improved performance, more comprehensive support, and enhanced security features. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP users request more intuitive setup processes, better documentation, and streamlined updates. The complexities in NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP's setup are more frequently mentioned as an area needing improvement.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Amazon S3 is praised for its straightforward deployment and reliable customer service. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP's deployment is perceived as more complex, requiring better initial guidance. Despite this, users find the customer service for NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP to be responsive and helpful.

Pricing and ROI: Amazon S3 offers an affordable solution with good ROI, especially for small to medium-sized businesses. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP may have higher setup costs, but users feel the investment is justified by its robust features and functionality. Amazon S3 is considered cost-effective, whereas NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP provides greater value through advanced capabilities.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Amazon S3

Ranking in Public Cloud Storage Services

2nd

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP

Ranking in Public Cloud Storage Services

5th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Migration (1st), Cloud Storage (1st), Cloud Backup (10th), Cloud Software Defined Storage (1st)

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Public Cloud Storage Services category, the mindshare of Amazon S3 is 11.5%, down from 13.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is 7.2%, up from 7.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Featured Reviews

Vagner Martins

Information Security Analyst at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

Enhanced data security with seamless integration and static website capabilities

S3 is a great service offering numerous possibilities. It allows for storing objects and files of various types. I appreciate its capability to create static websites and integrate with services like CloudFront, EC2, and DynamoDB. Despite being focused on security, I leverage features such as cryptography and integration with CloudTrail.

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Madhusudan Srinivasmurthy

System Engineer at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Saves us a lot of time, and the administration is simpler

NetApp's Integration with AWS has helped us because we had a tough time transferring data when we used an ONTAP competitor as our storage partner. They don't have integration with AWS tools, so we had to figure it out on our own. ONTAP has built-in integration and allows us to replicate a copy to our second data center. Everything is in one channel. It's possible without the technology, but it's more time-consuming. NetApp saves us a lot of time, and the administration is simpler.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Amazon S3 is easy to use and it is beneficial to use the CLI to make the backups. Since I use the CLI I do not have to do it on a web portal which is a big advantage because everything can be automatized. Automation can be done very well in Amazon S3."

"Amazon S3 is a storage bucket service with good stability."

"The most valuable features of Amazon S3 are the performance and hibernation data options. Additionally, there is a feature that provides faster website access that is helpful."

"I don't have any problems with the solution. It's issue-free."

"Amazon S3 is easily scalable and provides fantastic performance, especially in comparison to other cloud solutions like OCI and Azure."

"The tool helps us with data backup storage of payment files and helps us avoid issues with clients when we miss the data. For instance, in the payment file of my Google client, you can find details of one-to-one transactions like the payment information on the file header, payment ID, payment client ID, group headers, etc. We get these details into the file format of ISO which is the accepted format at JP Morgan & Chase. Once we get the file format, we process it through S3."

"The main aspect we like is that it's been easy to use."

"The solution's most valuable feature is its security, as it does not provide public access."

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"The solution’s Snapshot copies and thin clones in terms of operational recovery are the best thing since sliced bread. Rollback is super easy. It's just simple, and it works. It's very efficient."

"Another feature which gets a lot of attention in our environment is the File Services Solutions in the cloud, because it's a completely, fully-managed service. We don't have to take care of any updates, upgrades, or configurations."

"The storage tiering is definitely the most valuable feature... With respect to tiering, the inactive data is pushed to a lower tier where the storage cost is cheap, but the access cost is high."

"The good thing about NetApp is the features that are available on the cloud are also available on-premises."

"ONTAP is great for helping you migrate on-premise workflows to cloud environments."

"Its functionality and technical support are adequate to help prevent failure due to errors."

"This solution has helped us because it is easy to use."

"SnapMirror helps mirror metadata and data volumes between endpoints in a data fabric."

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Cons

"We have used the support from Amazon S3. The support is expensive and could be reduced."

"In the next release, I think that it would be good to have wizards that would update into specific applications, for example, a one-touch configuration in Pagemaker."

"The service could improve by offering mobile backups, which would be great since using Google Backup is costly."

"The read drive speed is not as fast as it should be."

"Amazon S3 should have more frequent updates."

"A feature that should be included is to find and provide a HIPPA compliant solution for the Presigned URL."

"There's a lot of complexity."

"The down side is the web app should be aware of all the features that S3 provides in order to leverage its full potential."

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"I would want more visibility and data analytics where we can see anomalies within the shares within the GUI."

"One difficulty is that it has no SAP HANA certification. The asset performance restrictions create challenges with the infrastructure underneath: The disks and stuff like that often have lower latencies than SAP HANA itself has to have."

"NetApp CVO needs to have more exposure and mature further before it will have greater acceptance."

"Cloud Volumes ONTAP's interface could use an overhaul. Sometimes you have to dig around in Cloud Manager a little bit to find certain things. The layout could be more intuitive."

"We would like to have support for high availability in multi-regions."

"The only issue we had lately was that outside our VPC we could not reach the virtual IP, the floating IP. I heard that they have fixed that..."

"Multipathing for iSCSI LUNs is difficult to deal with from the client-side and I'd love to see a single entry point that can be moved around within the cluster to simplify the client configuration."

"The automated deployment was a bit complex using the public APIs. When we had to deploy Cloud Volumes ONTAP on a regular basis using automation, It could be a bit of a challenge."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution is fairly priced."

"The cost of Amazon S3 is low. For R & D purposes there is a free option available. There is a license needed to use the solution."

"The pricing for Amazon S3 is reasonable, so price-wise, it's a seven out of ten."

"One can manage the price of the tool. The tool is worth the money if we want to store the data in Amazon S3."

"The price of the Amazon S3 is reasonable. There are not any licensing costs, they have a pay-as-you-use model."

"The licensing is pay as you go, and I'm happy with the pricing."

"Amazon S3 is a cheap solution."

"The cost of storage is cheap. However, the cost to have a better interface can get expensive. We are using Athena for this purpose and if we did some heavy queries the cost will start adding up. When the Athena query is running, it will scan the bucket and they charge for how many GBs we are going to scan. The function of scanning has a lot of costs attached to it, this is a negative point."

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"If a customer is only using, say, less than 10 terabytes, I don't think CVO would be a good option. A customer using at least 100 or 200 terabytes should get a reasonable price from NetApp."

"For NetApp it's about $20,000 for a single node and $30,000 for the HA."

"The solution's pricing is reasonable."

"I know the licensing is a bit on the high-end. That's when we had to downsize our MetroCluster disks and just migrate to disks that were half used. We migrated into those just to reduce maintenance costs."

"We find the pricing to be favorable due to the educational sector we belong to."

"In addition to the standard licensing fees, there are fees for Azure, the VMs themselves and for data transfer."

"Cost is a big factor, because a lot of companies can't afford enterprise grade equipment all the time. They skimp where they can. I would recommend that they improve the cost."

"Make sure you investigate what your requirements are going to cost you using the native cloud solutions versus what NetApp is going to cost you, to make sure you have a business case to go with NetApp."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Educational Organization

74%

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Educational Organization

45%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Amazon S3?

We can easily connect to the AWS resources.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon S3?

S3 is a pay-as-you-go service. I pay based on the data volume I am using.

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What needs improvement with Amazon S3?

There is a limitation with the data upload size, such as the five terabytes restriction. I would like to see an increase in the data upload limit, similar to DynamoDB, where there is no data limit.

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What do you like most about NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP?

So a lot of these licenses are at the rate that is required for capacity. So they're they're able to reduce the license consumption and also the consumption of the underlying cloud storage.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP?

The solution's pricing is reasonable.

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What needs improvement with NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP?

NetApp's support could improve.

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Also Known As

S3, Simple Storage Service

ONTAP Cloud, CVO, NetApp CVO

Overview

Amazon Simple Storage Service is storage for the Internet. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.

Amazon S3 has a simple web services interface that you can use to store and retrieve any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web. It gives any developer access to the same highly scalable, reliable, fast, inexpensive data storage infrastructure that Amazon uses to run its own global network of web sites. The service aims to maximize benefits of scale and to pass those benefits on to developers.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is an efficient storage management solution for managing and storing data in the cloud. It offers seamless integration with cloud providers, advanced data replication capabilities, and high data protection. With reliable performance, it is ideal for industries like healthcare and finance.

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Sample Customers

Netflix, Airbnb, Thomson Reuters, Zillow, Alert Logic

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